Improvement in processes for ruling paper



H. D. SNE.

t Process for Ruling Paper. NG.1 57,4Q5, Patented Dec.8,1874.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES FOR RULING PAPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,495, dated December 8, 1874; application led July 13, 1874.

To all whom 'it muy concern.:

Be it known that I, HENRY D. GONE, of Stockbridge, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new Improvement in Process for Ruling Paper; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of' the same,'and which said drawings constitute part of this specication, and represent, in-

Figure 1, side View of a pair of rolls for ruling under my improved process.

This invention relates to an improved" process for producing lines upon the surface of V paper, as a substitute for the well-known co1- ored or water lines 5 and the invention consists in the process of ruling paper by pressing or condensing the ber of the paper by passing it between pattern-rolls, which press fromA opposite sides on coinciding parts.

The best device known to me for carrying out my invention is shown in Fig. l; and this consists in a pair of ro1ls,A B,each formed with corresponding annular ribs a, each rib the width of the line to be produced, and the several ribs distant from eachother according to the distance between the lines to be produced. The rolls are set so that the space be- The process herein described for ruling paper, consisting in pressing or condensing the fiber of the paper by passing it between pattern-rolls which press from opposite sides on coinciding parts, substantially as specified.

HY. D.l GONE. Witnesses:

SAMUEL G. BLAcKMAN, J oHN E. EARLE. 

